I’m a sucker for great stories, and usually I don’t look for them on ESPN. When I can’t sleep, I’ll turn on sports radio. There’s something about the endless buzz of the commentary that helps me drop off. But when […]

“Doing what you’re doing- writing a book- is like running naked through the town square,” a friend of mine recently remarked. Thankfully, we don’t have much of a “town square” where I live in downtown Atlanta; and, besides, in the […]

Today’s musical feature comes much in the same spirit of Andrew Sullivan’s “Mental Health Breaks.” Chalk it up to the Scottish side of my family, but I guess I have a weakness for folk rock bands that magically blend some […]

The other day I was sitting at lunch next to a still lively, 90-year-old woman at a plush, assisted living center. (Funny thing is, even in plush surroundings like these, the food still tastes like your average, garden-variety, “institutionalized” grub.) […]

For those of us who still believe in true love, and for all my single friends traversing the landmines of today’s crazy dating world, this recent clip from Louis CK’s new comedy television series, “Louie,” shared by fellow saint and […]

Fellow saint and sinner Jake Dell (@jakedell73) has written a response to Psalm 23 and yesterday’s post which I have posted in full below. It captures in a beautiful, C.S. Lewis sort of way, the nature of faith in God’s dawning […]

So they arrested Jesus, took him off, and brought him into the high priest’s house…The men who were holding Jesus began to make fun of him and knock him about. They blindfolded him. “Prophesy!,” they told him. “Who is it […]

“Love me passionately, love me often, and love me long.” The appeal might grace the cover of Cosmopolitan. The one, big exception? That it is addressed to God…in the thirteenth century…by a “virginal” nun named Mechthild de Magdeburg. These days […]

“‘Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.’” Luke 10:3 “These were his instructions: ‘Take nothing for the journey except a staff- no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra […]